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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78FA054

1978-09-16 BEAR VALLEY, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9812U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

UVIFY 810-00028

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADB18C

Registrant of record

PIXIS DRONES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

GRUM AMER AA-1C · N9812U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

BEAR VALLEY

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1C-0135

Total time

298 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

43

Age

24

Investigator remarks

DA APRX 9600FT.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/07 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/W J
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Joint cause
  • 88/J/22 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3168. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3168.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.